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"If I hadn't gone to a bunch of AA meetings, I wouldn't have gotten rid of my TV, because I started to realize the TV didn't make me happy, but I couldn't stop watching it."

Regarding the way the book's "jump-cut style and information bombardment [is similar] to cruising the Internet":

"I've never been on the Internet... This is sort of what it's like to be alive. You don't have to be on the Internet for life to feel this way..."

- David Foster Wallace, in Chicago Tribune interview via Infinite Summer